When Progressive Mayors Aren't Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements

H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi — 2018-11-13T06:00:00Z

Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or for other reasons. Social movements serve as necessary progressive counterweights. H. Jacob Carlson, Marnie Brady and Gianpaolo Baiocchi show how the growing Homes for All campaign uses trans-local organizing to connect organizers across distant places to build both local and national momentum for progressive housing demands.
---- Series: Progressive Mayors and Urban Social

- From the Field / housing, urban policy, social movement, United States, networks, affordable housing, progressive urban politics, policymaking, mayors, progressive mayors, trans-local, housing justice

Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy

2015-10-27T06:00:00Z

The trend of civic innovation in contemporary activism relies much on modern tools of communication as a quasi-corporate way to confront contemporary social issues. But, the authors explain, activism that is agnostic about outcomes reifies privilege, discourages dissent and raw emotion, and falls short of addressing the most pressing issues of our time.
Civic engagement today is different than in the past. Many contemporary activists eschew sit-ins, picket lines, and paper petitions, stalwart

- From the Field / participation, United States, civic innovation, civil society, Providence, activism, privilege

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When Progressive Mayors Aren't Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements

Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy